"lampooned in the Monty Python Series 2 episode 'Scott of the Sahara'. Scott of the Antarctic (film) Scott of the Antarctic is a British 1948 Technicolor film which depicts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in Antarctica. John Mills played Scott, with a supporting cast which included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee. Produced by Ealing Studios, the film was directed by Charles Frend and largely shot at the studios, with some landscape and glacier exteriors shot in the"
"Southern Cross Expedition The Southern Cross Expedition, officially known as the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The brainchild of the Norwegian-born, half-British explorer and schoolmaster Carsten Borchgrevink, it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland, the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier since James Clark Ross's expedition of 1839 to 1843, and the first to effect a landing on the Barrier's surface. It also pioneered the use of dogs and"
"Antarctica from 1901 until his death in 1922. The name was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1994. Nearby craters of note include Shoemaker, Haworth, de Gerlache, Sverdrup, Slater, and Faustini. Somewhat farther away, on the eastern hemisphere of the lunar near side, are the larger craters Amundsen and Scott, named after two other early explorers of the Antarctic continent. From the perspective of the Earth, this crater lies along the southern limb of the Moon, making observation difficult. Detailed mapping of the polar regions and farside of the Moon did not occur until the advent of orbiting"
"of the Antarctic"". John Mills played her husband. Kathleen Scott Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, FRBS (27 March 1878 – 25 July 1947) was a British sculptor. She was the wife of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the mother of Sir Peter Scott, the painter and ornithologist. By her second marriage, to Edward Hilton Young, she became Baroness Kennet, and mother to the writer and politician Wayland Hilton Young. Born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce at Carlton in Lindrick, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, she was the youngest of eleven children of Canon Lloyd Stuart Bruce (1829–1886) and Jane Skene (d. 1880). She"
"They arrived to telegraph the news of Scott’s death on 10 February 1913. Captain Scott, whose full name was Robert Falcon Scott was the Captain of the Terra Nova. On this expedition Captain Scott was nicknamed ' The Skipper'. While on this expedition with Forde, Robert Scott wrote numerous diaries on the South Pole. This was then published in 1913 as Scotts Expedition. In January 1912 Captain Scott and the remaining men on his team reached the South Pole. They had been gone for 93 days and covered 960 statute miles. Scott died on his way back from the expedition"
"the north"". For example, the short-lived French colony established in Brazil in the 16th century was called ""France Antarctique"". The first formal use of the name ""Antarctica"" as a continental name in the 1890s is attributed to the Scottish cartographer John George Bartholomew. The long-imagined (but undiscovered) south polar continent was originally called ""Terra Australis"", sometimes shortened to 'Australia' as seen in a woodcut illustration titled ""Sphere of the winds"", contained in an astrological textbook published in Frankfurt in 1545. Although the longer Latin phrase was better known, the shortened name ""Australia"" was used in Europe's scholarly circles. Then in"
"Southminster. Alexander and Mary had a son who died shortly after birth and two daughters, Horatia and Margaret. Mary died in 1811 having been weakened by the birth of her son. Scott's daughter Margaret became a best selling author under her married name of Margaret Gatty. Scott also became Chaplain to the Prince Regent in 1816 and then the incumbent of a government living at Catterick. He died at Ecclesfield, Yorkshire in 1840, at the age of 72, and was buried in the churchyard of the Church of St. Mary, Ecclesfield Scott was a collateral forebear of the Antarctic explorer"
"Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (; 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom), Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition 1901–1904, from which he was sent home early on"
"Mount Strauss Mount Strauss () is a snow-covered mountain, rising to about 815 m, with a steep scarp on the south side, 6 nautical miles (11 km) east-southeast of the head of Brahms Inlet in the southwest part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. A number of mountains in this general vicinity appear on the maps of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947-48. This mountain, apparently one of these, was mapped from RARE air photos by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Johann Strauss I (1804–49) and Richard Strauss (1864–1949),"
"known as Evans of the Broke) and a young sub-lieutenant, the nephew of the Poet Laureate, posted to the ship in late June 1902. Under the command of Captain William Colbeck, a veteran of the ""Southern Cross"" expedition and a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, ""Morning"" would rendezvous with ""Discovery"" in Antarctica, replenish her supplies, and return with despatches. In January 1903 ""Morning"" made fast in ice at Hut Point in Antarctica, and on 3 February Mulock met Scott for the first time. Although Mulock was intended to replace any injured officer, his replacement of Ernest Shackleton in March"
"Scott's Hut Scott's Hut is a building located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. In selecting a base of operations for the 1910–1913 Expedition, Scott rejected the notion of reoccupying the hut he had built by McMurdo Sound during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904. This first hut was located at Hut Point, 20 km south of Cape Evans. Two factors influenced this decision. One was that the hut was extremely"
"and translation work for the Hakluyt Society, of which he also became president in 1890. He received public and academic honours, and was recognised as a major influence on the discipline of geography, although it was acknowledged that much of his work was based on enthusiasm rather than scholarship. Among the geographical features bearing his name is Antarctica's Mount Markham, named after him by Scott in 1902. Markham was born on 20 July 1830 at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, the second son of the Reverend David Markham, then vicar of Stillingfleet. The family were descendants of the Rt Hon. and Most Rev."
"HMS Scott (H131) HMS ""Scott"" is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS ""Hecla"". The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS ""Hecla"". She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs Carolyn Portillo, wife of Michael Portillo, the then-Secretary of State for Defence. She"
"""Discovery"" for the 1901 National Antarctic Expedition. Scott, the expedition leader, had been impressed with Skelton’s engineering abilities aboard the Majestic and so he was appointed Chief Engineer of the expedition. He also acted as expedition photographer. Nicknamed 'Skelly', there were no serious difficulties with any of the machinery under Skelton's care throughout the three-year expedition. Once established on the continent he became a well-respected member of the team (Huxley 1978), eventually having four features named after him: an inlet, a glacier, an icefall and a lévé. On his return he married his fiancée, the New Zealander Sybil Devenish-Meares of"
"achievements in a 1912 address to the British Association. He was equally dismissive in his history of Antarctic exploration, ""The Lands of Silence"" (published posthumously in 1921). By contrast, Markham remained on close personal terms with Scott and was godfather to the explorer's son, born 1909 and named Peter Markham Scott in the old man's honour. In his tribute to Scott in the preface to ""Scott's Last Expedition"" (1913), Markham describes Scott as ""among the most remarkable men of our time"", and talks of the ""beauty"" of his character. As Scott lay dying ""there was no thought for himself, only"
"(£109,000) between them. In the dozen years following the disaster, more than 30 monuments and memorials were set up in Britain alone. These ranged from simple relics (e.g., Scott's sledging flag in Exeter Cathedral) to the foundation of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge. Many more were established in other parts of the world, including a statue sculpted by Scott's widow for his New Zealand base in Christchurch. Scott's reputation survived the period after World War II, beyond the 50th anniversary of his death. In 1948, the film ""Scott of the Antarctic"" was released in cinemas and was the"
"History of Antarctica The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term ""Antarctic"", referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD. The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that ""Terra Australis Incognita"" (""Unknown Southern Land""), if it existed, was a continent in its own right. In 1773 James Cook and his crew crossed the Antarctic Circle for the"
"in the region of Vostok Station made during the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in 1959 and 1964 to measure the thickness of the ice sheet, discovering two spikes of reflection (one from bedrock and another from the sediment layer). Kapitsa was the first to suggest the existence of a subglacial lake in this region, which came to be known as Lake Vostok. The lake was named after Vostok Station, which in turn had been named after the ""Vostok"", the 900-ton corvette of the discoverer of Antarctica, Russian explorer Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen. The word ""восток"" means ""east"" in Russian, and the"
"explorer Robert Falcon Scott on the Discovery Expedition of 1901–04 was the first to attempt to find a route from the Antarctic coastline to the South Pole. Scott, accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, set out with the aim of travelling as far south as possible, and on 31 December 1902, reached 82°16′ S. Shackleton later returned to Antarctica as leader of the British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod Expedition) in a bid to reach the Pole. On 9 January 1909, with three companions, he reached 88°23' S – from the Pole – before being forced to turn back. The first"
"the northern side of the nunataks on 3 December 1911 by Prestrud during Amundsen's expedition. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 66), following a proposal by New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Scott Nunataks The Scott Nunataks are a group of conspicuous nunataks lying about 18 km east of the Richter Glacier and forming the northern end of the Alexandra Mountains in King Edward VII Land, Antarctica. The formation was discovered in 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott. It was named after Scott"
"men to reach the Geographic South Pole were the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911. Amundsen named his camp Polheim and the entire plateau surrounding the Pole ""King Haakon VII Vidde"" in honour of King Haakon VII of Norway. Robert Falcon Scott returned to Antarctica with his second expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition, initially unaware of Amundsen's secretive expedition. Scott and four other men reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, thirty-four days after Amundsen. On the return trip, Scott and his four companions all died of starvation and extreme cold. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton's"
"takes its name from the steam yacht ""Scotia"" of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–04), the expedition that made the first bathymetric study of the region. The Scotia Plate is made of oceanic crust and continental fragments now distributed around the Scotia Sea. Before the formation of the plate began (40Ma), these fragments formed a continuous landmass from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula along an active subduction margin. At present the plate is almost completely submerged, with only the small exceptions of the South Georgia Islands on its northeastern edge and the southern tip of South America. Together with the"
"because of its historic significance as one of the principal sites of early human activity in Antarctica. Cape Evans Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay. The cape was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the ""Skuary"" after the birds. Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, built its headquarters here, renaming the cape for Lieutenant Edward Evans, Royal Navy, second in command of the expedition. Scott's headquarters building still exists and is"
"Cape Evans Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay. The cape was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the ""Skuary"" after the birds. Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, built its headquarters here, renaming the cape for Lieutenant Edward Evans, Royal Navy, second in command of the expedition. Scott's headquarters building still exists and is known as Scott's Hut. Scott's Hut has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 16), following"
"stated in October 2017 that the planned out-of-service date for ""Scott"" is 2022. HMS Scott (H131) HMS ""Scott"" is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS ""Hecla"". The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS ""Hecla"". She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs"
"knighthood from King Edward VII. He made little financial gain from the expedition and eventually depended on a government grant to cover its liabilities. Within three years his southernmost record had been surpassed, as first Amundsen and then Scott reached the South Pole. In his own moment of triumph, Amundsen nevertheless observed: ""Sir Ernest Shackleton's name will always be written in the annals of Antarctic exploration in letters of fire"". Shackleton had been a junior officer on Scott's first Antarctic expedition in the ""Discovery"". He had been sent home on the relief ship ""Morning"" in 1903, after a physical collapse"
"Vostok (sloop-of-war) Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819—1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the ship) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding ""Mirny"", the second ship) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific. ""Vostok"" was launched in 1818 at Okhta shipyards, Saint Petersburg. On ""Vostok"" under the command of Commander Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, the leader of the expedition, alongside ""Mirny"" under the command of"
"other two, but even so it is only about 3 km in length. The individual islands don't have separate names in common maps and are thus named as a group.The sea surrounding these islands is covered with pack ice with some polynias in the winter and there are many ice floes even in the summer. This archipelago is named after Sigurd Scott-Hansen (1868-1937), a Norwegian naval lieutenant, who was in charge of the astronomical and meteorological observations during Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 polar expedition on the ""Fram"". Sigurd Scott-Hansen was born in Leith, Scotland where his father, Andreas Hansen, was the"
"sea-bottom samples, and for meteorological and magnetic observations. The hull was massively reinforced to withstand the pressures of Antarctic ice, and the ship was re-rigged as a barque with auxiliary engines. This work increased the cost of the ship to £16,700 (approximately £ as of 2019), which was met by the Coats family who altogether donated £30,000 towards the total expedition costs of £36,000. Renamed ""Scotia"", the ship was ready for her sea trials in August 1902. The expedition's scientific staff consisted of six persons, including Bruce. The zoologist was David Wilton who, like Bruce, had been a member of"
"Scott Nunataks The Scott Nunataks are a group of conspicuous nunataks lying about 18 km east of the Richter Glacier and forming the northern end of the Alexandra Mountains in King Edward VII Land, Antarctica. The formation was discovered in 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott. It was named after Scott by Lieutenant Kristian Prestrud, leader of the Eastern Sledge Party of Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910–1912), who ascended the nunataks while exploring Edward VII Peninsula in 1911. Prestrud’s Cairn is a small rock cairn erected at the foot of the main bluff on"
"""Français"", a three-master arrived at the Antarctic horizon. The French doctor and naturalist Jean-Baptiste Charcot was aboard. After his return from the ice he sold the ""Français"" but was not able to forget the Antarctic. In 1908 he purchased another three-master, the ""Pourquoi Pas"", with which he worked successfully in the Southern Ocean. Later the northern polar waters sparked the Frenchman’s interest and in 1928 he participated in the rescue mission for Amundsen. Sir Ernest Shackleton, a member of the ""Discovery-Expedition"" of 1901, returned with the forty-year-old ""Nimrod"" back into the Antarctic in order to march to the South Pole"
"Carsten Borchgrevink Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1 December 1864 – 21 April 1934) was an Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of modern Antarctic travel. He was the precursor of Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and other more famous names associated with the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. In 1898–1900 he led the British-financed Southern Cross Expedition, which established a new Farthest South record at 78°50'S. He is allegedly the only known person to be the first put his foot on a continent, when he in 1894 got onshore of the Antarctic mainland. Borchgrevink began his exploring career in"
"by the Russian Admiralty to commemorate the expedition. In 1828 sloop ""Vostok"" was excluded from navy lists and scrapped. Vostok (sloop-of-war) Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819—1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the ship) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding ""Mirny"", the second ship) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific. ""Vostok"" was launched in 1818 at Okhta shipyards, Saint Petersburg. On ""Vostok"" under"